When it comes to unconditional love, there is no better teacher than a pet--both for giving and for receiving love. In Charley's Firs...

Is it possible to model friendship for toddlers, to show examples of how to be a good friend? Jane Cowen-Fletcher's Baby Be Kind sug...

How well do we really know another person? And in adolescence, when everybody is changing--from their physical looks to the...

Liu and Martinez with their daughter Wife-and-husband team Na Liu and Andrés Vera Martínez reveal remarkable emotional honesty in Little...

Barney with his dog Arlo Barney Saltzberg has a wonderful message for children of all ages as his through line: There are no mistakes, a...

The mice in Boo to You! by Lois Ehlert build their confidence for fending off a threatening black cat by constructing a creature out of t...

When I got to talk to Lois Lowry recently about her book Son , the conclusion to the Giver Quartet, we discussed the fact that we both ha...